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Collection number

Mss1 W6326 a FA2

Title

A Guide to the Wickham Family Papers,
1766-1945

Size

5,500 (ca.) items (37 mss.
boxes)

Language

English

Abstract

Abstract: The collection includes
correspondence, 1798-1839, of Richmond, Va., attorney John
Wickham, primarily concerning business and legal affairs and
politics (correspondents include Stephen Decatur, Edmund
Ruffin, and U.S. senator Littleton Waller Tazewell); legal
records (including materials concerning the treason trial of
Aaron Burr in 1807); records concerning "East Tuckahoe"
plantation, Henrico County, Va.; and records concerning the
settlement of Wickham's estate. Also, includes correspondence,
1836-1897, of Wickham's son Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham
(1821-1909), New Orleans, La., attorney and planter at
"Woodside," Henrico County, Va. (including letters of Thomas
Ashby concerning the "Bunker Hill" plantation, Darlington
County, S.C., and of Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham of
Richmond and while visiting the Virginia springs); accounts;
and materials concerning his law practice. Also, includes
correspondence, 1864-1895, of Francis Peyre Porcher
(1825-1895), physician of Charleston, S.C., with family
members, prominent medical practitioners, and business
associates; and family and personal correspondence, 1870-1929,
of his daughter, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham (1860-1933),
especially with French soldiers and widows World War I, along
with two autograph albums compiled by Mrs. Wickham featuring
signatures and letters of prominent American and English
literary, political and scientific figures. Also, includes
diaries (36 v.), 1900-1939, correspondence, 1872-1935, and
miscellaneous records of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),
attorney of Sprague, Wash., and Richmond, Va., judge of the
Henrico County Court, and while serving in the Virginia
Senate; correspondence, 1891-1897, and miscellaneous records
of his cousin and law partner, William Fanning Wickham
(1860-1900) of Richmond, Va., concerning his law practice,
local civic activities, and service with the 1st Cavalry
Regiment of Virginia Volunteers; and miscellaneous records of
other Wickham family members

Acquisition Information

The Wickham family of Richmond and Henrico County, known as
the "Woodside Wickhams," was founded by the celebrated
post-Revolutionary War attorney John Wickham (1763-1839). A
skilled advocate and friend to many of the prominent legal and
political figures of his day, Wickham married twice and had
numerous off-springs. This collection primarily traces his
descendants by his second wife, Elizabeth Selden McClurg.

The collection opens with attorney John Wickham's personal
correspondence, largely with his second wife, Elizabeth Selden
(McClurg) Wickham, and his children. Letters from a number of
prominent correspondents appear as well, including: James
Breckinridge (concerning the Virginia Constitutional
Convention of 1829-1830), Joseph Carrington Cabell (enclosing
lengthy letters of Isaac A. Coles concerning his travels in
western Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, the Missouri
Territory, and the Missouri Compromise), Stephen Decatur,
Maria M. Fanning (of Prince Edward Island, Canada; in part
concerning Governor Edmund Fanning), Robert Gamble (enclosing
an extract from a letter of George Mathews, governor of
Georgia), John Church Hamilton (concerning a biography of
Alexander Hamilton), William Gaston, Edmund Ruffin, Benjamin
Silliman (of Yale College), Littleton Waller Tazewell (about
35 letters written while a U.S. senator from Virginia, a
Norfolk attorney, and a planter on the Eastern Shore;
enclosing a copy of a letter from Chief Justice John Marshall
[18 January 1827] and notes on admiralty law; and describing a
cholera epidemic [17 September 1832]), George Wickham (while
serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S.
Constellation in the Mediterranean Sea [see also Josiah
Colston]), and Walter Maclurg Wickham (as a medical student
and physician in Baltimore, Md.).

Box three commences with materials from John Wickham's law
practice. These include his 1787 licence to practice in
Virginia; a commonplace book, ca. 1766-1780, kept by an
unidentified person (no doubt a Wickham relative), with notes
on procedural law in the inferior and superior courts of the
Colony of New York and accounts (p. 130ff) of an unidentified
individual; proceedings and orders of the Board of British
Debt Commissioners in Philadelphia, Pa., 1798-1808; records of
actions in the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia
in the so-called British Debt Cases, 1795-1808; and a will of
Nicholas M. Vaughan of Goochland County 1833.

Materials concerning the famous trial of Aaron Burr in the
federal court in Richmond on treason charges in 1806-1807
primarily revolve around Wickham's questioning of the
integrity of evidence provided by General James Wilkinson and
Wilkinson's attempt to secure satisfaction on the field of
honor. The records include copies of Wilkinson's letters to
President Thomas Jefferson; correspondence of Wickham with
George Hay, Dr. William Upshaw and James Wilkinson; and
affidavits and a memorial of Miles Selden and John Wickham.
(Wickham's writings are letter-press copies in very poor
condition and barely legible.)

While a resident of Richmond, John Wickham purchased a
large tract of land in western Henrico County known as "East
Tuckahoe." His records of that estate include lists of slaves
at "Middle Quarter" and "Lower Quarter," 1821-1837 (the 1825
list includes Wickham's notes on various workers); test
borings for coal, 1809-1834; and notes on the wheat crop,
1836.

John Wickham's commonplace book, 1804-1807, records notes
on climate, weather, agriculture and population, and
undoubtedly served as a source for the pamphlet on climate
that he wrote. Miscellaneous materials include a lengthy essay
on slavery and abolition(undated but probably written by
Wickham in the 1830s); a biographical sketch of Chief Justice
John Marshall (see letter of Bushrod Washington, Box 2);
physician's instructions for the care of Elizabeth Selden
(McClurg) Wickham, 1823; epitaphs of certain of the Wickham
children; notes concerning a tour through Europe, ca. 1784;
and lines of verse.

Materials concerning the estate of John Wickham include his
will, 1839, probated in Richmond (bearing extensive notes of
Benjamin Watkins Leigh); letters of condolence addressed to
Mrs. and Henry Hiort; Richmond City tax receipts, 1854-1863;
and litigation among the heirs, 1854 (also concerns the estate
of Dr. James McClurg). Division of the "East Tuckahoe" estate,
1847-1871, includes agreements, litters of John Wickham
(1825-1902) And William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) to
Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham; an abstract of title; notes
and a bond.

John Wickham married first Mary Smith Fanning, who bore him
two sons and died young in 1799. His second wife, Elizabeth
Selden McClurg, was a celebrated belle of her day. The papers
of this second Mrs. Wickham, in Series 2, consist of
correspondence, 1794-1850, including letters of Edwin Burwell,
Stephen Decatur, Dr. James McClurg, Eliza (Kinloch) Nelson (at
"Shirley" Charles City county), Littleton Waller Tazewell,
Eliza Carter (Randolph) Turner (of "Shirley," Charles City
County), George Wickham, and John Wickham ([1825-1902] at
Harvard College). Copies of wills of benefactors include those
of Edwin Burwell (an early admirer, written in Richmond,
1798), Dr. James McClug (probated in Richmond, 1823), and
Walter McClurg (probated in Elizabeth City County in 1784).
Miscellany is comprised of a receipt, 1850; autograph of Henry
Clay; recipes; and lines of verse.

The eldest of the children of John and Elizabeth Wickham
featured prominently in this collection is Maclurg Wickham
(note that the children began to spell "McClurg" as
"maclurg"). Maclurg Wickham (1814-1900) lived at "East
Tuckahoe." His papers are contained in Series 3, and consist
of a diary, 1851-1882, with many gaps, that deals primarily
with plantation operations, the management of slaves
(including lists of slaves with records of the distribution of
clothing and supplies), and notes from 1890 concerning the
recent death of family members and friends. Some of the
records in this diary were entered by John Wickham
(1825-1902). A few items of correspondence, 1848-1876, include
letters from his brother William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880).
Additional materials are made up of loose accounts, 1860-1897;
bonds of Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham and receipts of
Maclurg Wickham, 1859-1865; and materials, 1893-1897, from the
lawsuit of Maclurg Wickham trustee etal. v. the heirs of
Frances (Wickham) Graham etal. in an unidentified Virginia
court (including correspondence and notes of William Fanning
Wickham [1860-1900] as counsel and receipts of the
legatees).

Maclurg Wickham's miscellany consists of diplomas from the
University of Virginia, 1831-1832; a pardon, 1865, signed by
President Andrew Johnson and William Henry Seward; a lease of
Thomas E. Clarke to the "Woodside" plantation in Henrico
County (including trust deeds concerning horses and cattle at
"Woodlawn," Henrico County); personal property tax return,
1896; and an insurance policy, 1897. Wickham's estate records
are comprised of notes of Henry Taylor Wickham concerning the
draft of a will and the response; a certificate of the
executor's qualification; an inventory; and an unexecuted
deed, 1909, to real property in Richmond, Va.

Littleton Waller Tazewell Wickham was named for one of his
father's closest personal friends. Educated at the University
of Virginia, he practiced law in New Orleans for a time before
returning to Virginia in the 1850s. His papers comprise Series
4. His correspondence (Boxes 5-8), 1836-1897, largely concerns
his life as a student at the University, the estates of his
two deceased wives, and plantation a portion of the old "East
Tuckahoe" estate. Among the more important of frequent
correspondents are: Thomas Ashby (of Charleston, S.C.,
concerning the "Bunker Hill" plantation in Darlington County,
S.C.), Parke Farley Berkeley, John Minor Botts, Alfred T.
Conrad, Francis Buckner Conrad, William W. Harllee (of Mars
Bluff, S.C., concerning the purchase and sale of the "Bunker
Hill" plantation), William F. Harrison (of Powhatan County),
Gabriella Brockenbrough (Wickham) Leigh, Robert Nash Ogden
(New Orleans judge, concerning the estate of John Nicholson),
John Scott (of "Oakwood," Fauquier County, concerning the
abolition of slavery), Philip Montague Thompson (at the
University of Virginia), Elizabeth Seldon Maclurg Wickham
(with comments on everyday life and society in Richmond; some
letters written from New Orleans, La., Salt Sulphur Springs
and Sweet Springs, W. Va., and Hot Springs, Bath County, Va.),
George Wickham, John Wickham ([1825-1902] at the White Sulphur
Springs and Sweet Springs, W.Va., in1844 and bearing
references to John Minor Botts and Robert Edward Lee),
Littleton Tazewell Wickham, Thomas Ashby Wickham (practicing
law at Sprague, Washington and visiting White Sulphur Springs,
W.Va., in 1895), William Fanning Wickham ([1793-1880] of
"Hickory Hill," Hanover County, concerning the lawsuit Wickham
etal. v. Leigh etal. in Richmond Circuit Court), and H. B.
Taliaferro & Co., Richmond (postwar produce and commission
merchants).

L. W. T. Wickham's financial records are found in Boxes
8-9. These include two account books, 1851-1874 (record of
checks) and 1874-1878; a passbook, 1855-1857; and loose
accounts, 1849-1882 and 1890-1891. Materials, 1837-1839,
concerning Wickham's education at the University of Virginia
include essays (bear notes of Professor George Tucker), a
speech on slavery, scheme of study, invitations, accounts,
eximinations, and diplomas. Records of invitatins, accounts,
examinations, and diplomas. Records of Wickham's law practice,
1848-1852, consist of licenses, a commonplace book bearing
abstracts of Virginia and British case reports and notes of
John Wickham (1763-1839), notes on law, materials concerning
lawsuits in Louisiana, and materials concerning his law
partner in New Orleans, Francis Buckner Conrad.

Bell & Gibson of Richmond constructed Wickham's home at
"Woodside" about 1857. Records in Box 10 include agreements,
accounts, an insurance policy, and letters to William Fanning
Wickham (1793-1880) from Baltimore craftsmen concerning a
mantle. William F. Harrison of Powhatan County built a barn
and "machine shelter" on the estate and his records are
comprised of agreements, accounts, notes and miscellany. Then
follow records of agricultural operations, 1857-1875: deeds to
portions of the estate; inventories of personal property;
lists of slaves; a petition to the Virginia General Assembly
concerning fence laws; agreements with overseers; notes and
miscellany.

In the later 1850s Wickham purchased the land and slaves at
"Bunker Hill" in Darlington County, S.C., from his
father-in-law, Thomas Ashby. After Wickham's wife died, the
transaction became a point of conflict between the two men.
Records consist of bonds, receipts of Ashby, accounts,
proceedings concerning the dower right of Elizabeth Peyre
(Ashby) Laurens Wickham, accounts of sales of property, lists
of slaves, a letter of William W. Harllee to Dr. Edward
Porcher, and miscellany.

A few of Littleton Wickham's records from the period of the
Civil War survive. These include certificates; assessors'
receipts for produce; a petition of George A. Mathews to
Confederate Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon (draft in
the hand of Wickham); a pass; petition of Henrico County
residents to General Edward R. S. Canby concerning the fencing
of farms (signed by L.W.T. Wickham, Maclurg Wickham, and about
two dozen others); and notes. Materials relating to Wickham's
postwar filing for bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for
Eastern Virginia consist of a petition, schedules of property
(broadsides), a deposition, power of attorney, notes and
letters of William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and William
Fanning Wickham (1860-1900) as a counsel, a copy of the
marriage settlement of Charlotte Georgiana (Wickham) Lee and
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, receipts, and certificates.

Miscellaneous documents relating to Littleton Waller
Tazewell Wickham are comprised of a letter of Daniel Webster
to Benjamin Watkins Leigh in 1840; plans for the gradual
abolition of slavery written by Wickham in 1847; a lease,
1862, to a house in Richmond; litigation involving Wickham,
1867-1870; a will written in Henrico County, 1861; lines of
verse composed by Wickham (including odes to Richmond and to
Virginia); a commonplace book, 1886 (two entries); letters
written to Wickham & Co., Lorraine, Va., 1893-1897; and
newspaper clippings.

Littleton Wickham married his first wife, Eliza Wyckoff
Nicholson, in New Orleans, but she died young in 1850. She is
represented in Series 5. Her correspondence, 1846-1850, is
primarily with relatives and largely concerns the estate of
her father, John Nicholson. Among her correspondents are
Alfred T. Conrad, Louisiana congressman Charles Magill Conrad,
Francis Buckner Conrad, Frances S. D. Ogden, Judge Robert Nash
Ogden and Elizabeth Selden Maclurg Wickham. Box 12 also
contains a few accounts, 1849-1850, and materials concerning
the estate of John Nicholson ([d. 1848] including
correspondence of L.W.T. Wickham and William T. Hepp
[administrator]; accounts; power of attorney; petition to the
Louisiana District Court in New Orleans; a printed message of
the governor of Pennsylvania concerning the estate of John
Nicholson [d. 1800]; a document of partition and compromise;
inventories of estate property; court proceedings; and notes
of L.W.T. Wickham and others). Miscellany and a few items from
her estate round out the records of the first Mrs. Wickham
(will [three copies], memorial by L.W.T. Wickham and funeral
notice, certificate from the Louisiana district Court for
Jefferson Parish, accounts, court proceedings [drafts of
petitions and motions], and notes).

The second Mrs. Wickham, the widow Elizabeth Peyre (Ashby)
Laurens of Charleston, S.C., likewise died young in 1859 after
bearing four children. Her papers, in Series 6, include
letters written to her, 1852- 1859, including one from South
Carolina attorney general James Louis Petigru. The collection
also includes letters, 1821-1831, written by her mother,
Elizabeth (Peyre) Sinkler Ashby, to a handful of
correspondents, and a letter of E. Thomas concerning the death
of Mrs. Ashby. Series 7 contains the papers of John Wickham
(1825-1902), the youngest of the Wickham sons, who also lived
at "Woodside" in Henrico County. His correspondence,
1837-1902, includes letters from Benjamin Watkins Leigh,
Winfield Scott (concerning an appointment to the military
academy at West Point) and Littleton Waller Tazewell (bears an
extract from a letter of President John Tyler to Tazewell, 24
October 1842). Along with sporadic accounts, Box 13 contains
John Wickham's records of "East Tuckahoe," particularly
concerning mineral rights and mining proposals and including
plats and notes of John J. Pleasants, deeds, and an
agreement.

John Wickham likewise filed for bankruptcy following the
Civil War. Records of these proceedings in the U. S. District
Court for Easter Virginia consist of a memorandum of
proceedings; petition; reports; reply and exceptions of
Maclurg Wickham (drafts in the hand of William Fanning Wickham
[1860-1900]); letters addressed to William Fanning Wickham of
T.A. & W.F. Wickham of Richmond; notes and miscellany.
Some general miscellany and a few items from his estate
(including diplomas from the University of Virginia, 1841, and
a will written in Henrico County in 1901) complete John
Wickham's records.

Series 8 contains materials relating to this generation of
Wickhams. Included are a number of items of correspondence of
Dr. James McClurg, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Elizabeth Selden
Maclurg Wickham, George Wickham, James Maclurg Wickham and
others.

Series 9 contains the papers of Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher,
whose daughter married a son of L.W.T. Wickham. Porcher was an
eminent South Carolina physician and medical writer who had
married a granddaughter of John Wickham (1763-1839). His
correspondence in this collection, 1864-1895, is directed
largely to family members, prominent American and European
practitioners, and some financial and business associates
(especially concerning railroad bonds). Some letters concern
the collection of autographs for his daughter, discussed
below. Correspondents include Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin,
Florida congreeman Silas Leslie Niblack, Dr. George Frederick
Shrady, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham, William Fanning
Wickham (1793-1880) and a number of Porcher family members.
Lectures, 1849 and 1870) on Cicero and the Roman Forum, an
1879 lecture before the Young Men's Christian Association of
Charleston, S.C., and an undated essay concerning South
Carolina local history also survive.

Dr. Porcher's miscellany includes a number of interesting
items. Along with a few accounts, 1865-1869 and 1895, are
orders of the Confederate States Surgeon General Samuel
Preston Moore, 1862; notes on the Confederate service of the
7th South Carolina Infantry Regiment; Confederate States
Bonds, 1863; Florida Central Railroad stock certificates,
1868; a published articles on Yellow Fever, 1894; and a
commission, 1881, as South Carolina representative to the
American Public Health Association, signed by Governor Johnson
Hagood. These are followed by a few miscellaneous Porcher
family materials: letters to or from Isabella Sarah (Peyre)
Porcher, Virginia (Leigh) Porcher and Dr. Walter Peyre
Porcher; and essays on freedmen in South carolina by Alexander
Mazyck Porcher.

Series 10, the papers of Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939),
include thirty-six volumes of Judge Wickham's diaries, for the
years 1900, 1902-1925, and 1929-1939. The entries are cryptic
notations on local weather, farming activities, travel,
personal finances, and the like. Judge Wickham's
correspondence, 1872-1938 (beginning in Box 19), is primarily
with members of his family, concerning his law practice in the
Washington Territory, his service in the Virginia Senate
(especially regarding confirmation proceedings for the
appointment of Judge William Francis Rhea to the State
Corporation Commission), and the estate of Frances (Wickham)
Graham. This includes a large number of letters from his law
partner and later Washington State Supreme Court justice
Wallace Mount.

Following a group of loose accounts and check stub books
(two volumes), the collection contains records of Judge
Wickham's residence at "Woodside." These include an insurance
policy, proposal for rental of farm land, agreements,
materials concerning bridge construction over Tuckahoe Creek
and miscellany. Other land records of Wickham concern the
acquisition of lots and improvements in Richmond and Henrico
County, 1909- 1912.

Records concerning Judge Wickham's law practice, 1843-1921,
consist of licences and licence fees; law notes; a tribute to
James Robertson Vivian Daniel; notes concerning the
professional conduct of John Anthony Lamb; accounts of the law
firm of T.A. & W.F. Wickham in Richmond, 1893-1896; cases
in the Richmond Chancery Court, Richmond Law and Equity Court,
and Henrico Circuit Court (including the estate of Frances
(Wickham) Graham in Graham's trustee v. Graham's heirs);
materials concerning lands in Richmond belonging to Lucy
Wickham (Fitzhugh) Faison and R. H. Sinton (in the lawsuit of
Joseph A. Johnston v. Rebecca Johnston etal.); and materials
concerning executorships and trusteeships handled by Wickham
during his judicial career.

Judge Wickham's political materials concern his service in
the Virginia Senate in 1908 (petition of citizens of York
County for a portion of their district to be added to James
City County; materials concerning the confirmation proceedings
in the case of Judge Rhea on the State Corporation Commission)
and his unsuccessful bid to win the 1910 Democratic
Congressional Primary against Congreeman John Lamb (notes;
form letter; labor union materials, newspaper clippings). The
judge's miscellany includes the diary of an 1895 visit to
White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.; stock certificates, 1907-1910;
tax forms for various years; and a will (revoked).

Following Judge Wickham's papers are the surviving records
of his cousins and law partner William Fanning Wickham
(1860-1900). They practiced together in Richmond in the 1890s
as T.A. & W.F. Wickham. Contained in Series 11, William F.
Wickham's correspondence largely concerns his law practice,
St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hanover County (letters from
architects, manufacturers, contractors, etc.), the Virginia
State Agricultural and Mechanical Society (especially
concerning the Virginia State Fair of 1893), the First Cavalry
Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Wickham's purchase of a farm
in Powhatan County, and local alumni of the University of
Virginia. Prominent correspondents include Anne Carter
(Wickham) Renshaw Byerly, horsebreeder H. Clay Chamblin,
Stuart Lee Dance, Alexander Barclay Guigon, Maryland horseman
Robert Hough, Fenton Noland (of Offley, Va.), Thomas Nelson
Page, clergy Clevius Orlando Pruden, Hanover County attorney
Hill Carter Redd, federal judge Edmund Waddill, Henry Taylor
Wickham, Lucy Penn (Taylor) Wickham, John Sergeant Wise, and
the Re. E. Lee Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans in
Richmond.

Additional records of William Fanning Wickham consist of
accounts, 1893-1897; materials as colonel commanding the First
Cavalry Regiment of Virginia Volunteers (general and special
orders, invitations to participate in special events, expenses
of a court-martial, and subscribers to the Albemarle Light
Horse Troop of Virginia Volunteers); invitations and notices
of meetings of such secret societies, clubs, and fraternal
orders as the Scottish Rite Freemasons, Shriners, Knights
Templar, Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and Wednesday Club of
Richmond. General miscellany includes records of his law
practice; assorted materials concerning the construction of
St. Paul's Church in Hanover County; materials concerning the
Seay Farm in Powhatan County; Republican Party materials;
records of the University of Virginia alumni banquet in
Richmond, 1894; bonds; and materials concerning Hanover County
courthouse.

Series 12 contains materials relating to Julia Wickham
Porcher (1860-1933), who married her cousin Thomas Ashby
Wickham in 1897 and lived at "Woodside." She kept a diary (Box
28) in 1896 during a trip to England and France that contains
numerous clippings and photographs along with daily notations.
Her correspondence, 1870-1929, is primarily with Porcher
family members and with friends, but also includes letters
from a number of French soldiers and widows during and just
after World War I. Among the significant correspondents:
Hobart Asquith (concerning his Confederate serve in the
Maryland Line under generals Lunsford Lindsay Lomax and
Williams Carter Wickham), Episcopal clergyman Ambler Mason
Blackford, French clergyman C. Boyer (written in French at the
close of World War I), New York banker Charles Meriwether Fry,
Elizabeth (Leigh) Fry, Hamilton Wright Mable, Virginia Carter
Minor, Alexander Mazyck Porcher, Isabella Sarah (Peyre)
Porcher, Virginia Leigh Porcher, Dr. Walter Peyre Porcher,
Helen Willis (Minor) Poyntz, Conway Robinson (concerning
President Rutherford B. Hayes), Mary Susan Selden (Leigh)
Robinson, Irish actress Patricia (Collinge) Smith, Littleton
Maclurg Wickham, and Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer (enclosing a
copy of his pamphlet entitled Some Thoughts on Robert Elsmere,
in a Letter to a Friend [1889?]).Mrs. Wickham's account books
include a volume covering expenses on a trip to Europe in 1891
and a passbook apparently on a New York bank, 1895-1896. Then
follow in Boxes 33-34 her very extensive collection of
autographs of famous persons. Mrs. Wickham apparently began
collecting as a young woman with her father's encouragement
and aid, and amassed a fine group of letters, autographs, and
clipped signatures from her father's friends and medical
associates, as well as from other Porcher and Wickham family
members. The first volume remains intact and an index to it
follows this collection description. Loose items have been
filed in the same box with the album, as the index will show.
The second volume was in very poor condition, the highly
acidic paper on which many items were pasted threatened their
very existence. The volume thus was disassembled and the loose
items filed alphabetically according to type of document. A
separate index of the documents removed from this second
volume is also available.

The remaining materials of Mrs. Wickham in this collection
include a scrapbook dating from 1904 containing numerous
newspaper clippings, and a large file of clippings grouped
around certain subjects (obituary notices, Virginia and South
Carolina local history, Huguenots in America, general
information). Miscellany consists of a few accounts,
1920-1926; an essay on women; a student notebook (primarily
concerns literature and language); materials concerning the
"Half-Hour Reading Club," 1889-1895, presumably in South
Carolina; genealogical and historical notes; and lines of
verse by Edmund Pendleton.

Series 13 is made up of a few surviving papers of Judge
Thomas Ashby Wickham's brother Littleton Tazewell Wickham
survive in this collection. They consist of correspondence,
1880-1889; accounts, 1886-1888; account books (two volumes),
1878-1883, 1882-1883; and a check stub book, 1882-1884. Series
14 contains papers of their sister Elizabeth (Wickham)
Fitzhugh, including letters, 1866-1881, from Thomas Ashby,
Mary Louise Brooks, Isabella Sarah (Peyre) Porcher, William
Fanning Wickham (1793-1880) and others; accounts, 1882-1884;
and miscellany. A number of items of correspondence,
1882-1939, of Mrs. Wickham's sister Virginia Leigh Porcher,
make up Series 15. These may be found in Box 36 as well.

Littleton Maclurg Wickham (1898-1973), son of Judge Thomas
Ashby Wickham, represents the last generation of "Woodside
Wickhams" in this collection. His papers are contained in
Series 16. His correspondence, 1909-1945, is primarily with
family and friends from the University of Virginia and
concerns in part Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and
Wickham's service in World War I. Correspondents include John
Herbert Claiborne, Richard Hartwell Cocke (of "Lower Bremo,"
Fluvanna County, and as an attorney in Alabama), Richard
Davenport Gilliam, Congreeman Andrew Jackson Montague, Amelia
Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy and Dr. Frederick Henry
Wilke.

Records of Littleton Wickham's days at the Episcopal High
School in Alexandria, both as student and teacher, may be
found in Box 37. Examination reports, exam questions, a list
of students, invitations and programs illustrate his career as
a student, 1911-1915, while teach contracts (signed by
Archibald Robinson Hoxton) and accounts cover his teaching
career, 1917-1921 (see also his correspondence with his
mother, Julia Wickham (Porcher) Wickham). Wickham attended the
University of Virginia, graduating from the college in 1917
and attending the School of Law from 1922 to 1924. Examination
reports, a recommendation from Professor Richard Henry Wilson,
and miscellany cover his years in Charlottesville. Miscellany
concerns his World War I service (1917) and personal accounts,
1923-1938.

The collection closes with Series 17, which contains
miscellaneous family and non-family materials including
letters written to or by Anne Alston Porcher, Margaret Ward
Porcher and Ashby Porcher Wickham; a commonplace book of Mary
Charlotte Porcher, 1850; and accounts of Julia Porcher
(Wickham) Porter, 1931-1937.